GQP is Silent About Rep. Alexander Kolodin’s Comment ‘I’ll Shoot You’ During A Committee Hearing

by

Last week, Governor Hobbs’ press aide had to resign after posting a gif in a tweet suggesting gun violence. Hobbs’ press aide resigns over tweet (excerpt):

At the heart of the controversy is as post by Berry late Monday featuring an image from the 1980 movie “Gloria’’ showing a woman with a handgun in each hand. “Us when we see transphobes’’ Berry wrote.

Advertisement

That followed an earlier post where she wrote “If you work in the progressive community and are transphobic, you’re not progressive. Period. End of story.’

[W]hat complicated the issue is the timing.

The post occurred just hours after a shooting at a Nashville private school which killed six people, including three children.

The posting provoked an immediate reaction from [GQP press flack] Daniel Scarpinato (aka ScrappyDoo) who had been a press aide and, later, chief of staff for former Gov. Doug Ducey.

“Twelve hours after the shooting in Tennessee, the spokeswoman for Gov. Hobbs share her feelings about what to do to people who disagree with her political views: Shoot them,’’ he wrote in his own Twitter post. “Just imagine if this was the spokesperson for a Republican governor.’’

And the Arizona Freedom [sic] Caucus, composed of the most conservative Republicans in the Legislature, called the post “vile’’ and sought Berry’s firing.

What received far less media attention (media bias?) was just hours later a far-right member of the Arizona Freedom [sic] Caucus,  an election denier who was one of Donald Trump’s Stop The Steal lawyers in Arizona who brought frivolous challenges to the 2020 election results and is somehow now a member of the Arizona legislature, told a committee witness “I’ll shoot you.” Arizona lawmaker tweets about shooting people after Hobbs aide quits over gun tweet:

A state lawmaker is facing a social media backlash for public statements about who he would “shoot” made the day Gov. Katie Hobbs’ spokesperson resigned over a tweet that seemed to encourage violence after a< massacre at a Christian school.

Comments by state Rep. Alexander Kolodin, R-Scottsdale, in the House Judiciary Committee and on Twitter on March 29 drew immediate comparisons to the March 28 tweet by Hobbs’ former spokesperson, Josselyn Berry, which resulted in her resignation.

Kolodin had been debating in the committee with a speaker about Senate Bill 1323, which calls for felony charges against school officials who unlawfully refer students to or use “sexually explicit material in any manner.”

” I’m Jewish. We circumcise our kids, and people think that’s really weird, right? That’s my right and if you try to take it away from me, I’ll shoot you, you know.”

  • Rep. Alexander Kolodin

Neither Chambers nor the bill’s sponsor, Sen. Jake Hoffman, R-Queen Creek, had mentioned circumcision or religion in regard to the bill at that point. Chambers laughed nervously at the “shoot you” comment but showed no further reaction at the time.

Chambers told The Arizona Republic later that, speaking for herself and not her organization, she was not surprised by his words.

“I hope he was joking,” she said. “I hope that in the future he takes gun safety and his statements about how guns should be used more seriously.”

Rep. Kolodin then posted on his own tweet threatening to shoot anyone who infringes on his religious freedom.

After Kolodin doubled-down on the comments on Twitter, an online spat erupted as other commenters joined in, becoming another example of the national tension over gun policy and the polarization of partisan viewpoints.

Sample:

It is fascinating that Rep. Kolodin is equating all Democrats with Nazis, and by extension, this justifies his “shooting” Nazis (Democrats in his warped mind).

All of this is occurring while literally every Republican in the country jumps on the anti-Semitic “George Soros” smear against Democratic local prosecutors in defense of defendant Donald Trump, a notorious anti-Semite who is pushing this smear.

Who could forget: Haaretz, Trump Hosted a Notorious Antisemite. Most of the GOP Stayed Silent (h/t above photo).

Only one party has become a White Christian Nationalist, i.e., fascist, party and that is the Republican Party. And here is a Jewish guy who is collaborating with fsscists to do their dirty work by destroying American democracy for their “Dear Leader,” Donald Trump, so they can impose their fantasy of a White Christian Nationalist theocracy in America (the American Taliban).

How does this deeply delusional fool think this turns out for Jews, and any other non-fundamentalist evangelical Christian not part of the MAGA/QAnon cult of Donald Trump, in the end?





Advertisement

Discover more from Blog for Arizona

Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.

2 thoughts on “GQP is Silent About Rep. Alexander Kolodin’s Comment ‘I’ll Shoot You’ During A Committee Hearing”

  1. While I don’t disagree with Rep. Kolodin’s invocation of violence to stop fascists (aka Nazis) from taking power and enacting their eliminationist rhetoric and scapegoating as state policy (I disagree with those who say that violence is NEVER appropriate – stopping fascists from committing crimes against humanity ABSOLUTELY justifies proportionate violence against them), I think the man is seriously deluded as to who represents such a threat in today’s America. It sure isn’t a bunch of woke folk who want America to be a modern multi-cultural, diverse, and maximally free democratic society: it’s the yahoos on the far right trying to remake America as a Christian fundamentalist homogeneous ethno-state and are willing to subvert and destroy our democracy to make it so. Not to mention that in doing so, those fascists will certainly diminish the rights and privileges of citizenship to those who do not conform to their ideal, and are likely to do far worse once those non-conforming citizens are stripped of their rights and political power. Kolodin is a classic example of a man who loves his freedom and utter fails to correctly identify the real threats to that freedom. I think we call such people ‘useful idiots’ and this term richly applies to him.

  2. The GQP is hypocritical about direct (Kolodin) and/or indirect (Berry) threats of violence?

    [Start sarcasm]

    I’m shocked! Shocked, I say!

    [/end sarcasm]

Comments are closed.